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Saving Charlie Gard

Why should technical expertise be elevated over parental love?

Updated July 9, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET

Charlie Gard, an 11-month old British child with a rare genetic disease, is today the most famous baby in the world. For all the wrong reasons.

Even as he remains on life support at a British hospital, he has attracted the attention of the President of the United States, the pope, the British courts and the European Court of Human Rights. All because his government has backed medical experts who say the experimental treatment...